An application of supervised and unsupervised learning approaches to telecommunications fraud detection

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 721-726

  Hilas, Constantinos S ^a   Mastorocostas, Paris As ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fraud detection; Supervised learning; Telecommunications; Unsupervised learning; User profiling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

FRAUD DETECTION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; USER MODELLING; USER PROFILING;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 51149102669     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2008.03.026     Document Type: Article

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